In these two key passages, Justin Martyr interprets Mithraic rituals and myths as demonic parodies of Christ’s incarnation, ...

In Letter 107 to Laeta, Jerome combines a pastoral reflection on conversion with an account of the urban prefect Gracchus, ...

In these passages from his hymns and satires, Julian articulates a solar theology in which Helios governs cosmic order and time. Within this framework, Mithras appears as a personal divine guide ...

A series of polemical passages in which a leading fourth-century Christian theologian presents the cult of Mithras as a religion defined by cruelty, bodily suffering, and shameful initiation rites.

Marble votive altar (H. 0.77 Br. 0.30 D. 0.16). Inv. No. 155. Above the list there are coils with an fan-like motif. In its front an inscription: CIL III 15184. L.H ...

The article examines two recently discovered Mithraic representations of Cautes from Alba Iulia, focusing on a rare iconographic type showing the torchbearer with a bucranium.

In polemical passages from the late second and early third centuries, Tertullian portrays the cult of Mithras as a demonic ...

An anonymous late-antique Christian poem, traditionally attributed to Pseudo-Paulinus of Nola (Poema 32, vv. 109–111), that ...

Late antique legendary biography of Alexander the Great (c. AD 300), where history, myth, and imperial ideology merge around ...

In the eighteenth year of Diocletian’s reign, Galerius Maximianus, persuaded by the sorcerer Theoteknos, consulted demonic ...

Fragmentary Latin inscription from Simitthus (Chemtou), dated to the reign of Caracalla and Julia Maesa. It refers to a restoration (?) and concludes with the fulfilment of a vow to Cautes and ...

I am researching the Latin inscription dedicated by Callimorphus to Mithras (EDCS-27800570 / CIL III 12135). Could you please let me know if you have any information about the current location or ...